Painting into Abstraction

Learn the fundamental principles of abstract painting and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane.

Tonee Messiah introduces painting techniques from modernist abstraction to the present day and shows how painters approach the translation of subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool and emotive agent.

This course gives you the opportunity to develop your own abstract language with a focus on acrylic painting, and you can also work in oils or mixed media. Tonee leads group discussions and demonstrates how to identify students’ individual areas of interest and translate them into abstract artworks. The course is suitable for those with a basic knowledge of paint handling and will be very beneficial for those with prior painting experience.